Massimo Poncino is a Full Professor of Computing Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. His research interests include the design automation of digital systems, with special emphasis on low-power embedded systems. He has co-authored more than 300 publications in the above areas.

Massimo Poncino has served as a member of the Technical Program Committee of more than 50 IEEE and ACM conferences. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2011 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design and General co-Chair for the same conference in 2012. He has served in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on CAD, IEEE Design & Test, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.
Prof. Poncino is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the ACM SIGDA Low-Power Technical Committee.